Broderipia iridescens

Broderipia iridescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2][3]

Broderipia iridescens
Drawing with two views of a shell of Broderipia iridescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Broderipia
Species:
B. iridescens
Binomial name
Broderipia iridescens
(Broderip, 1834) [1]
Synonyms

Scutella iridescens Broderip, 1834

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 10 mm. The shell is limpet-shaped, with oval outline and posterior apex. The margins are expanded. In profile it is very depressed, highest a little back of the middle, the slope from the apex upward short and concave, from the apex downward gently convex. The surface is lusterless, with scarcely visible growth striae. The shell is opaque-white, radiately striped with olive-bordered red lines, generally interrupted and forming a tessellated white and dark pattern. The apex is minute, recumbent, spiral, dextral. The inside of the shell is brilliantly iridescent, not showing the color pattern clearly except at the red-and-white spotted margins.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean and in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

References
  1. Broderip, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 1834 p. 48
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Broderipia iridescens. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594215 on 2012-11-23
  3. Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  4. G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  • To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
  • To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Broderipia iridescens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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